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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 15:30 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:28 UTC

    WHO: 2,2 billion people worldwide with vision impairment or blindness

    The report found that ageing populations, changing lifestyles and limited access to eye care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, are among the main drivers.

    The World Health Organization in its latest report has said that at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision impairment or blindness, of which over 1 billion cases could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed. This is because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and far-sightedness, glaucoma, and cataracts.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:15 UTC

    González Urrutia treated by Venezuelan physician in Spain

    “I was also moved to think that the talent of my fellow countryman was in exile like millions, like me,” González Urrutia reckoned

    Retired Venezuelan diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many consider to be president-elect after the July 28 polls in which Caracas' National Electoral Committee (CNE) said without producing any corroborating evidence that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been the winner for the 2025-2031 period, suffered a fall this past weekend while he was in exile in Spain, for which he was treated by a countryman physician also fleeing the Bolivarian regime.

  • Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

    Donald Lamont former Ambassador in Uruguay and former GovernorFalkland Islands

    Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Holsey to take over from Richardson as SOUTHCOM Chief

    Holsey will be the first African-American SOUTHCOM Chief

    US Army four-star General Laura J. Richardson is to be replaced as Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Chief by her current second-in-command US Navy Vice Admiral Alvin Holsey, who is to be promoted to full Admiral for his new role, it was announced this week.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Porto Alegre's Airport to resume handling commercial flights next week

    It has been over six months since the Salgado Filho Airport's runway was under water

    Brazilian authorities announced Friday that Porto Alegre's Salgado Filho International Airport (POA/SBPA) in the State of Rio Grande do Sul will be reopening Monday after months of being inoperational given the unprecedented floods. The measure will be carried out as scheduled: airlines have been selling tickets for these flights since August.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    Bolivia's economy seriously hit by Evistas blockading roads

    “The only thing they are doing is harming the distribution and logistics of products,” Siles also pointed out

    Four days into the road-blockading protests staged nationwide by followers of former President Evo Morales, Government sources said Friday that up to US$ 1.5 billion worth of exports had been affected by the move. In addition, private entrepreneurs have also complained about the damages caused to them by the populist defense of the former head of state under prosecution for rape and human trafficking.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    VIP drug dealing gangs linked to Payne's death in Buenos Aires

    Pending lab results could corroborate whether Payne was intoxicated when he fell to his death

    Investigators in Buenos Aires believed VIP drug dealers for the rich and famous played a part in the death of pop music star Liam Payne in the Argentine capital this week. According to a post-mortem, the former One Direction singer fell from the balcony of a hotel in the Palermo district, which caused hemorrhages. Payne had been in Argentina since appearing at a concert by former bandmate Niall Horan on Oct. 2.

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

    Cuba slowly recovering from mass blackout

    Díaz-Canel blamed the US blockade for Cuba's poor maintenance of its electricity-generating equipment

    Cuba was gradually and slowly returning to normalcy late Friday after a power outage that hit most of the country, the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) pointed out in its latest update.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 18:59 UTC

    Chile: Boric picks replacement for Monsalve

    Cordero was somehow demoted from Justice Minister to Interior Undersecretary

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font chose Luis Cordero to replace Manuel Monsalve as Undersecretary of the Interior following the latter's resignation amid an alleged rape scandal currently under investigation, Interior Minister Carolina Tohá announced.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 18:34 UTC

    University of Brasilia agrees to quotas for trans undergrad students

    The UnB had introduced quotas for black people back in 2003

    The University of Brasilia (UnB) announced Thursday that starting next year, quotas for transgender people would be implemented in undergraduate courses, Agencia Brasil reported.